YG2D Podcast

September 17, 2021

Conversation with Ned Buskirk who unabashedly sources our shared mortality to inspire and create community. Our conversation runs from 6:49-52:00

Swaddle Podcast

January 13, 2021

Conversation with Shrishti Malhotra, producer at The Swaddle, about the colonial debate on sati, feminist discourse online and why we need to engage with spiritual thought critically.

Pain

2015, Digital Audio Composition, 8 minutes, Lata Mani & Sindhu Thirumalaisamy

Pain is built around a 2001 recording of Lata Mani reading a chapter from her book, Interleaves: Ruminations on Illness and Spiritual Life. The piece recomposes the text as a sonic experience that sensorially explores and augments its rethinking of pain. Pain is a “musical” composition of generated sounds and field recordings of nature. Sindhu Thirumalaisamy is an artist and filmmaker based in Bangalore, India.

Anger Meditation

2001, 1.32 minutes, Lata Mani

Lata Mani reads a chapter from her book Interleaves: Ruminations on Illness and Spiritual Life.

Interleaves Part I The Journey

Lata Mani reads: Auto-Biography 0.00; Initiation 5:51; View from the Bottom 9:31; Trip to the Garden 32:42; Grief What Have You Come to Teach Me 40:00; Pain 44:09; Taking Stock 50:45; Appointment with the Neurologist 56:25; Anger Meditation 1:08:01; May We Come to Learn More & More What We’ve Come to Learn 1:09:30; Surreal Stories 1:11:30; Temporality, Agency & Chronic Illness 1:30:08; On Route 80 1:43:37; Afterword: The Tantra of Presence 1:59:25

Interleaves self-published in 2001 as audio CD & book; book published Yoda, 2011

Interleaves Part II Contemplations

Lata Mani reads: Silence 0:00; Courage 7:57; Acceptance 23:10; Concentration 44:04; Faith 1:01:30; Surrender 1:24:20; Renunciation 1:48:37